If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.

How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!

I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.

Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.

It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.